On the same day I attended the CIMS project workshop with a smattering of New Zealand community sector leaders (see my post “Collaboration in motion - CIMS”), UK not-for-profit ICT enthusiasts, leaders and technophiles were participating in the second ICT Hub National Conference in London.
Over the last four to five years the UK government has […]
Entries from March 2007
UK ICT Hub Conference
March 31st, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Community groups · Social media, Web 2.0
Collaboration in motion - CIMS
March 30th, 2007 · No Comments
If you want to look at an example of geninue collaboration you couldn’t find a better example of what’s happening under the working title of the Community Information Management Project (CIMS).
I attended a presentation yesterday where the CIMS project was introduced to a wide cross section of community organsiation reps. At the end of the […]
Tags: Community groups · Aotearoa New Zealand · Websites
Whispers from the past
March 17th, 2007 · No Comments
Last June Roz and I spent a week exploring the rural hinterlands near Noosa and further up the coast at Rainbow Sands. It was our last trip together before our little one came along and transformed our lives (which Elsa since has done so, of course).
I was reminded of our trip after hearing a docmentary […]
Participatory GIS
March 11th, 2007 · No Comments
At a very vibrant meeting of an online participation community of practice meeting on Thursday, Jasmin Callosa-Tarr gave a presentation on participatory 3d modelling. From what I picked up GIS is being used to create real-life scale models of physical environments, then, using skilled facilitation, locals describe land-use, vegetation, infrastructure or even social patterns. The […]
Tags: Social media, Web 2.0
Wiki carnival on social media
March 7th, 2007 · No Comments
“Aggregation, Alerts, Asynchronous communications, Archive, Authenticity, Avatars, Back channel, Blogs, Blogosphere, Blogroll, Bookmarking, Browser, Bulletin boards, Categories, Champions, Chat, Collaboration, Collective intelligence, Comments, Commitment, Communities, Community building, Conference, Connections, Content, Content management systems, Control, Conversation, Copyright, Crowdsourcing, Culture, Cyberspace, Default, Democracy, Download, Ego searches, Email, Email lists, Face-to-face, Facilitator, Feeds, Folksonomy, Forums, Friends…..”
This is just […]
Tags: Community groups · Social media, Web 2.0
Save the Internet - a NZ view
March 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
I promised to report back if I learnt whether legislation to restrict the free flow of information over the Internet would be introduced in New Zealand (see my earlier post Save the Internet).
So far I’ve got some very definitive (and reassuring) news. According to Andy Williamson, a leading thinker and activist on citizen use of […]
